cctld CheapVacations.ca $47,000 / VacationPackages.ca $15,000

[msn]

Congratulations to Frank Schilling once again, with a two-fer this week, now the sale is out in the open.

The buyer is netholidays.ca and they stand to gain quite a bit with their domain upgrades.

 

[peteboy48]

Wow, nice sales. How did you have the informations?

 

[msn]

Once the sales are made public you can see them listed on the weekly summary by Ron Jackson.

 

[peteboy48]

Thank you

 

[hugegrowth]

I'd love to know if the sales prices had anything to do with type in traffic, or just the popularity/branding value of these travel terms. Or both?

Do you think these names get a lot of natural traffic?

 

[Maxwell]

I'd love to know if the sales prices had anything to do with type in traffic, or just the popularity/branding value of these travel terms. Or both?

Do you think these names get a lot of natural traffic?

To be honest with you, I think many of these sales are made on a basis of just throwing a number out there.

Not in a completely haphazard sense, of course. It's illogical to offer $1,000 because they'll be told to screw off. And it's illogical to offer $500,000, since neither of these names are worth that.

So, a suitable in-between is in order which is low enough to make it a deal, and high enough that

a) it's profitable for the seller

and

b) it's profitable enough that it's not worth "screwing around" with to perhaps lose the deal

The reality is, the buyer knew they would be paying $xx,xxx each anyway. So, making a realistic offer without relying on a saga of offer/counter-offer prevents things from getting out of hand, while ensuring a lucrative deal for the seller.

I think the numbers were very well chosen. It works out to $62,000 - which after brokerage fees (assuming about 3%) comes out to $60,000 even.

A year's salary for many. A tidy take-home for a couple of two word domains!

 

[msn]

Brokerage is 10% to 15% but the bigger item here is the cost to acquire traffic in Google on these keywords. If you do some math you will see there is a reasonable two year or less payoff for the purchaser.

 

[kramer9399]

Brokerage is 10% to 15% but the bigger item here is the cost to acquire traffic in Google on these keywords. If you do some math you will see there is a reasonable two year or less payoff for the purchaser.

Well said...totally agreed. If you can make the domain profitable it also adds an asset to the companies portfolio as well on top of increased sales.